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Harmful Brown Tide Erupts Across Great South Bay

STONY BROOK, NY, June 25, 2021 — An intense and damaging brown tide has erupted across Great South Bay on the south shore of Long Island. Monitoring by The Gobler Laboratory at Stony Brook University has revealed...

June 25, 2021

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Do Stickleback Fish Provide a Roadmap of Rapid Species Evolution?

STONY BROOK, NY, June 18, 2021 – The Threespine stickleback fish is known to have evolved independently from its marine ancestors in thousands of freshwater lakes across the northern hemisphere, a process called...

June 18, 2021

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Study Identifies a Neural Signal that May Help Explain Social-Cognitive Ability in Autism

STONY BROOK, NY, June 18, 2021 – An electroencephalogram (EEG) study of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) identified a neural signal that may help explain the variation of how those with ASD perceive or...

June 18, 2021

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PRIDE MONTH 2021: Stony Brook Medicine to Administer First LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs Assessment Survey on Long Island

Stony Brook, New York, June 4, 2021 — Stony Brook Medicine is gearing up to administer the first LGBTQ+ community health needs assessment survey on Long Island. The LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs Assessment Survey is a...

June 4, 2021

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New Non-Invasive Test Can Detect Bladder Cancer

STONY BROOK, NY, June 3, 2021 – A novel urine screening test that uses the protein Keratin 17 (K17) as a biomarker to detect new or recurrent bladder cancer may change diagnostics for a certain form of the disease...

June 3, 2021

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Study of Wild Geladas Reveals Mid-Size Group Living is Best for Survival and Fitness

The News in Brief: A team of researchers studied a long-lived primate species (geladas) closely related to humans to examine the fitness consequences of living in small, medium and large groups. They found that females...

June 2, 2021

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Machine Learning May Help Improve Long-Range Weather Forecasting

STONY BROOK, NY, May 26, 2021 – The accuracy of weather forecasting decreases with each additional day of forecasting and is limited in accuracy at two weeks. Now a new study published in Nature Communications and led...

May 26, 2021

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Stony Brook University Cancer Center Receives Funding Boost to Fight Cancer

Stony Brook, New York, May 21, 2021 — In support of its fight against cancer, the Stony Brook University Cancer Center has received funding secured in the NY state budget to help the Cancer Center on its journey...

May 21, 2021

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Compound May Prevent Arrhythmia Caused by Medicines

STONY BROOK, NY, May 18, 2021 – A national team of researchers including Ira S. Cohen, MD, PhD, of the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, has identified a compound that prevents the lengthening of...

May 18, 2021

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New Study Has Scientists Re-Evaluating Relative Brain Size and Mammalian Intelligence

STONY BROOK, NY, April 28, 2021 – Scientists from Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have pieced together a timeline of how brain and body size evolved in mammals over the last 150...

April 28, 2021

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Ørsted and Eversource Announce $5M Commitment to Stony Brook University to support Offshore Wind Research Initiatives

Stony Brook, N.Y., April 26, 2021 – Today, joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource, developers of New York’s offshore wind farm, Sunrise Wind, announced the launch of a research partnership with Stony Brook...

April 26, 2021

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CEBIP Solar Panel Cleaning Tech Company Advances to American-Made Solar Prize Finals

STONY BROOK, NY, April 15, 2021 – SuperClean Glass, Inc., a company that uses a solar panel-cleaning technology developed at Stony Brook University and a start-up mentored by the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program...

April 15, 2021

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Stony Brook Students Participating in National Clinical Trial to Test Covid-19 Transmission

STONY BROOK, NY, April 13, 2021 – A national study with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to see how effective it is against preventing spread of the disease to others is underway and will involve hundreds of Stony Brook...

April 13, 2021

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Covid-19 Pandemic Results in 40,000 Children Losing a Parent

STONY BROOK, NY, April 5, 2021 – A letter published in JAMA Pediatrics, co-authored by Rachel Kidman, PhD, of the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University, presents a statistical model showing that around...

April 5, 2021

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How Would Geoengineering Impact Nature? SBU ecologist and colleagues tackle the question

The News in Brief: A team of research scientists called the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group asks the question: How would natural systems be affected if humans used technology to cool the Earth? They consider...

April 5, 2021

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Scientist Receives TAF Award for a Nitrogen Sensor Technology to Advance Septic Systems

STONY BROOK, NY, March 30, 2021 – Qingzhi Zhu, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has received a SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) award for...

March 30, 2021

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Images showing KRAS intact in tumor tissue and knocked out in a laboratory model of PDAC.

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Stopping Mutant KRAS Could Lead to Enhanced Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

STONY BROOK, NY, March 10, 2021 — If clinicians could stop mutations of the KRAS gene in pancreatic cancer – which happens in more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancer cases and drastically reduces response to...

March 10, 2021

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New Study Sheds Light on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions, Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

STONY BROOK, NY, March 10, 2021 — A new study by a team of international scientists jointly led by Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, PhD, and Professor Samuel Turvey of the Zoological Society of...

March 10, 2021

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Harmful Brown Tide Erupts Across Great South Bay

Do Stickleback Fish Provide a Roadmap of Rapid Species Evolution?

Study Identifies a Neural Signal that May Help Explain Social-Cognitive Ability in Autism

PRIDE MONTH 2021: Stony Brook Medicine to Administer First LGBTQ+ Community Health Needs Assessment Survey on Long Island

New Non-Invasive Test Can Detect Bladder Cancer

Study of Wild Geladas Reveals Mid-Size Group Living is Best for Survival and Fitness

Machine Learning May Help Improve Long-Range Weather Forecasting

Stony Brook University Cancer Center Receives Funding Boost to Fight Cancer

Compound May Prevent Arrhythmia Caused by Medicines

New Study Has Scientists Re-Evaluating Relative Brain Size and Mammalian Intelligence

Ørsted and Eversource Announce $5M Commitment to Stony Brook University to support Offshore Wind Research Initiatives

CEBIP Solar Panel Cleaning Tech Company Advances to American-Made Solar Prize Finals

Stony Brook Students Participating in National Clinical Trial to Test Covid-19 Transmission

Covid-19 Pandemic Results in 40,000 Children Losing a Parent

How Would Geoengineering Impact Nature? SBU ecologist and colleagues tackle the question

Scientist Receives TAF Award for a Nitrogen Sensor Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Stopping Mutant KRAS Could Lead to Enhanced Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer

New Study Sheds Light on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions, Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

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